Eighteenth-Century Women Poets : Nation, Class, and Gender
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| Title: | Eighteenth-Century Women Poets : Nation, Class, and Gender |
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| Description: | This book shows how eighteenth-century women's literature redefined nation and culture in class and gendered terms.This book examines the poems of three Englishwomen—washerwoman Mary Collier, middle-class feminist polemicist Mary Scott, Bristol milkwoman Ann Yearsley, and Scottish dairywoman from Ayrshire, Janet Little. It questions how national identity might have influenced gender and class affiliations, and, reciprocally, how gender might have determined a nationalist impulse, particularly as it played out during the revolutionary period (1770-1800) in which most of the texts were written.Moira Ferguson is James E. Ryan Chair in English and Women's Literature at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her recent publications include Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery 1678-1834; Colonial and Gender Relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid; and Jamaica Kincaid: Where the Land Meets the Body. |
| Authors: | Ferguson, Moira |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | English poetry--18th century--History and criticism, National characteristics, English, in literature, National characteristics, Scottish, in literature, Working class writings, English--History and criticism, English poetry--Women authors--History and criticism, Women and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century, Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century, Feminist poetry--History and criticism, Scots in literature |
| Categories: | POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | This book shows how eighteenth-century women's literature redefined nation and culture in class and gendered terms.This book examines the poems of three Englishwomen—washerwoman Mary Collier, middle-class feminist polemicist Mary Scott, Bristol milkwoman Ann Yearsley, and Scottish dairywoman from Ayrshire, Janet Little. It questions how national identity might have influenced gender and class affiliations, and, reciprocally, how gender might have determined a nationalist impulse, particularly as it played out during the revolutionary period (1770-1800) in which most of the texts were written.Moira Ferguson is James E. Ryan Chair in English and Women's Literature at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her recent publications include Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery 1678-1834; Colonial and Gender Relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid; and Jamaica Kincaid: Where the Land Meets the Body. |
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| ISBN: | 9780791425114 9780791425121 9781438402628 |
